Robert Krasny Arthur F. Thurnau Professor Department of Mathematics 4830 East Hall 530 Church Street University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1043 phone: (734)-763-3505 fax: (734)-763-0937 email: krasnyATumichDOTedu

teaching

winter 2012

• Math 671 Topics in Scientific Computing: Particle Methods

previous

• Math 156 Applied Honors Calculus II
  
• Math 371 Numerical Methods for Engineers
  
• Math 471 Numerical Methods
  
• Math 557 Methods of Applied Mathematics II: Asymptotics
  
• Math 558 Applied Dynamical Systems
  
• Math 571 Scientific Computing I: Numerical Linear Algebra
  
• Math 572 Scientific Computing II: Differential Equations
• Math 654 Introduction to Fluid Dynamics
  
• Math 655 Topics in Fluid Dynamics - Hydrodynamic Stability
  
• Math 671 Topics in Scientific Computing: Wavelets

research

• scientific computing, particle methods
  fluid dynamics, vortex dynamics, Kelvin-Helmholtz instability, vortex sheet roll-up, vortex rings, aircraft wake structure, Hamiltonian chaos in vortex flow
  treecode algorithms for vortex methods, electric fields in plasmas, molecular dynamics, radial basis functions
  
• profile
• publications
• picture gallery of vortex motion

treecode software

• Keith Lindsay regularized Biot-Savart, free-space BC, written in C
  
• Zhong-Hui Duan Coulomb, periodic BC (Ewald/treecode), written in C
  
• Hans Johnston Coulomb and screened Coulomb, free-space BC, written in Fortran90

travel

• Kyoto
• Sapporo

links

• AIM - Applied and Interdisciplinary Mathematics at the University of Michigan
• Michigan Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics
• Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics
• Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering
• Fellowships, Workshops, etc. for students and postdocs
• SIAM Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
• JJIAM Japan Journal of Industrial and Applied Mathematics
• History of Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing, articles and interviews collected by SIAM
• career webpage from SIAM
• career brochure from SIAM
• HPCwire Job Bank
  
• PhDs.org Science, Math, and Engineering Career Resources